Hello,
I am Penelope Mavor,
Founder of EarthConverse,
Helping you best serve people and planet.
This is part of the EarthConverse invitation to you to commit to a daily conscious practice of visualising the futures you want to serve,
A chance to exercise your potential and responsibility of co-creating the future you want for yourself,
Each other and the earth that is our home.
And this visualisation focuses on our own death,
Maybe not something you want to think about,
Let alone visualise.
But as wise man Ray Hillis quoted on the EarthConverse podcast,
Our death is the most important fact of our life.
It is going to happen.
Whereas the UNGA newspaper once announced,
World death rate is holding steady at 100%.
To contemplate our death is an empowering and liberating act of kindness to ourselves,
Each other and the earth that is our home.
And I personally am very grateful for the living and dying practices of ROPS,
School of Lost Borders and particularly the work of co-founder Meredith Little and my guides Ray Hillis,
Emerald North and Scott Daly,
As well as Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley,
Helping me to engage with dying as a way of coming into the fullness of living.
To embrace the paradox of living and dying,
Intention and surrender,
Being and doing.
I offer this EarthConverse visualisation to honour the teachings of nature and such wise kin and all lives and deaths,
Past,
Present and future.
So let's take some moments to visualise our own death.
I invite you to get comfortable,
Perhaps lying down,
Perhaps with pillows and blankets if you wish to get cosy on the earth,
On the floor and close your eyes if that feels right.
Maybe take a few long,
Deep breaths.
Visualise your life giving breath and the sacredness of it as you contemplate taking your last.
Visualise your ideal way to meet your own death.
Where are you?
Who are you with?
What is happening?
How are you?
Feel into your courage.
Your grace.
Your dignity.
Your tranquility.
The peace you have made with your own life and mortality.
The satisfaction of having put things in order so as not to burden your loved ones you leave.
The shadow work and conversations you've had to mourn,
Heal,
Honour relationships and show your love.
The rituals you made to honour the sacredness of your time on earth.
How you honoured your life.
What you learnt and shared.
How you loved others,
The world,
Yourself.
The forgiveness you gave and received.
The reverence for life you hold.
And how you will become that good ancestor having helped heal your ancestral wounds.
How you sleep every night,
The daily practice of a little death has helped you prepare for the ultimate surrender.
How each day has been an invitation into living and dying,
Of resetting and renewing and stepping into mystery.
Visualise your own earth burial,
Sky burial,
Fire burial and or water burial.
Feel the sacred elements within you,
Of which you are made and of which you will return.
Home in the earth,
The sky,
The breeze and the trees.
Autumn brings the fallen leaves and also the harvest.
Today the sun came up,
Tonight it will set.
Right now you can breathe in because you can breathe out.
Breathing deeply into your own death is to breathe even more deeply into your own life.
Visualising your own death will help you open to the gifts and lessons each day offers for how you can gracefully embrace the cycles of living and rebirth.
Coming back to your senses,
Open your eyes and resolve to honour the cycles of life in service of yourself,
Others and the earth that is our home.
